Hey startups,

Looking for some blunt operational advice from founders who have been through the pre-seed fundraising phase.

I’ve built our MVP, locked down the pitch deck and am running disciplined daily outbound to target investors and incubators/accelerators. Because that part of the process only takes a couple of hours a day, I've hit that classic pre-seed bottleneck. I have a lot of empty time on my hands.

I’m a firm believer that the faster you fail, the faster you succeed, clearing out bad assumptions quickly is part of the loop. Because of that, I don't want to over-build or waste weeks writing code for features that might change once capital actually hits. But sitting around refreshing an inbox or only working two hours a day feels unproductive.

For those of you who were in this exact spot, product ready, waiting on investor responses, bootstrapping what you can, what did you fill your downtime with?…